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The Biden Administration Tried to Censor This Stanford Doctor, but He Won in Court
A federal court of appeals ruled earlier this month that the White House, surgeon general, CDC and FBI “likely violated the First Amendment” by exerting a pressure campaign on social media companies to censor COVID-19 skeptics — including Stanford epidemiologist Dr. Jay Bhattacharya.
“I think this ruling is akin to the second Enlightenment,” Bhattacharya told The Post. “It’s a ruling that says there’s a democracy of ideas. The issue is not whether the ideas are wrong or right. The question is who gets to control what ideas are expressed in the public square?”
The court ordered that the Biden administration and other federal agencies “shall take no actions, formal or informal, directly or indirectly” to coerce social media companies “to remove, delete, suppress or reduce” free speech.
Bhattacharya, a professor of medicine, economics and health research policy at Stanford University, co-authored the Great Barrington Declaration in the fall of 2020 with professors from Harvard and Oxford. The epidemiologists advocated for “focused protection” — safeguarding the most vulnerable Americans while cautiously allowing others to function as normally as possible — rather than broad pandemic lockdowns.
Meta Encryption Plan Will Let Child Abusers ‘Hide in the Dark,’ Says U.K. Campaign
Mark Zuckerberg’s plan to roll out encrypted messaging on his platforms will let child abusers “hide in the dark”, according to a government campaign urging the tech billionaire to halt the move.
The Facebook founder has been under pressure from ministers over plans to automatically encrypt communications on his Messenger service later this year, with Instagram expected to follow soon after.
On Wednesday the Home Office launched a new campaign, including a statement from an abuse survivor, urging Zuckerberg’s Meta to halt its plans until it has safety plans in place to detect child abuse activity within encrypted messages.
A video to be distributed on social media features a message from one survivor, Rhiannon-Faye McDonald, who addresses her concerns to Mark Zuckerberg. “Your plans will let abusers hide in the dark,” she says as she urges the Meta CEO to “take responsibility.” McDonald, 33, was groomed online and sexually abused at the age of 13, although she did not encounter her abuser on Meta platforms.
Biden Admin Awards Over $4 Million in Grants to Programs That Target ‘Misinformation’
Since the start of September, the Biden administration’s National Science Foundation (NSF) and State Department have awarded grants totaling more than $4 million to programs, studies, and other initiatives that target “misinformation” — a term that the Biden admin has used to demand censorship of content that challenges the federal government’s COVID narrative.
These awards were granted as the Biden admin faces a major lawsuit for pressuring Big Tech to censor content that it deems to be misinformation.
An appeals court recently stated that the Biden regime violated the First Amendment when pushing social media platforms to censor and in an Independence Day ruling on this case, a judge described the Biden admin’s actions as “Orwellian.” The Supreme Court is now considering whether to hear the case.
This Ex-Googler Helped Launch the Gen AI Boom. Now He Wants to Reinvent Vaccines
Former Google AI researcher Jakob Uszkoreit was one of the eight co-authors of the seminal 2017 paper “Attention is All You Need,” which introduced the Transformers architecture that went on to underpin ChatGPT and most other large language models (LLMs).
The fact that he is the only one of the cohort that transitioned into biotech — co-founding Inceptive, which recently raised $100 million from investors like Nvidia and Andreessen Horowitz — is no surprise, Uszkoreit told VentureBeat in a recent interview.
The Palo Alto-based Inceptive, which was founded in 2021 by Uszkoreit and Stanford University’s Rhiju Das to create “biological software” using Transformers, has built an AI software platform that designs unique molecules made of mRNA, which Pfizer and BioNTech used to make their COVID-19 vaccines. Essentially, the company designs mRNAs with neural networks, tests the molecules, and licenses them to pharmaceutical companies that put them through clinical trials.
G20 Leaders Plot CBDCs and Digital IDs Worldwide
In a monumental step toward a digitized future, the convocation of the 20 largest world economies, famously known as the G20, have concluded upon a commitment to herald the advent of digital currencies and digital IDs across their territories.
This decision, however, has sparked major anxieties given its potential as a mechanism through which governments can keep tabs on their citizen spending habits and stifle opposition. The announcement came from a recent meeting held in New Delhi, under the mantle of India’s presidency.
Voices from across the globe have raised alarms over the potential grooming of cryptocurrencies through government-aided regulation, which could subsequently lead to the replacement of these decentralized digital currencies with state-controlled Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) that could override privacy and security attributes.
The idea of extensive monitoring of cryptocurrencies has ruffled feathers, with apprehensive individuals arguing that this might grant governments the master keys to manipulate social credit scores and control the monetary spending of citizens.
UN to Discuss How to Better Control the World at Annual General Assembly
The UN’s charter outlines a grand mission statement of benevolent purpose, with its supposed root mission being the pursuit of global peace and security. It is therefore ironic that the institution relies on a host of fabricated crisis events and ongoing conflicts in order to remain relevant.
As UN Secretary António Guterres argues: “The UN is not a Vanity Fair, it is a political body.” And really, that is the problem. There is no use for the UN other than to act as a foil for the eventual imposition of a faceless and unaccountable world government.
The organization will always strive for more centralization as long as it exists; it does not care about peace, it cares about power. Thus, every new crisis event is seen as an opportunity for these people, not as a threat that needs to be solved.
While think tanks like the WEF and summits like Davos are designed to keep political and financial elites informed on the overall agenda ahead, the UN is more of a vehicle for public engagement and implementation. They are the “governing body” that is supposed to give legitimacy to the globalist obsession with world government. They are the friendly faces of the beast, and they come with many gifts and promises of justice and equity.
Everything We Know About Neuralink’s Brain Implant Trial
Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink has announced it is one step closer to putting brain implants in people.
Today, the company stated that it will begin recruiting patients with paralysis to test its experimental brain implant and that it has received approval from a hospital institutional review board.
Such boards are independent committees assembled to monitor biomedical research involving human subjects and flag any concerns to investigators. Neuralink is dubbing this “the PRIME Study,” an acronym for Precise Robotically Implanted Brain-Computer Interface.
Neuralink is one of a handful of companies developing a brain-computer interface, or BCI, a system that collects brain signals, analyzes them, and translates them into commands to control an external device. In May, the company said on X, formerly Twitter, that it had received approval from the Food and Drug Administration to conduct its first-in-human clinical study, but didn’t provide further details at the time.
This World-Class Airport Will Soon Go Passport-Free
Traveling through one of the world’s best airports is set to get even smoother next year. Starting in 2024, officials say Singapore’s Changi Airport will introduce automated immigration clearance, which will allow passengers to depart the city-state without passports, using only biometric data.
Biometric technology, along with facial recognition software, is already in use to some extent in Changi Airport at automated lanes at immigration checkpoints.
Biometrics will be used to create a “single token of authentication” that will be employed at various automated touch points — from bag drops to immigration clearance and boarding — eliminating the need for physical travel documents like boarding passes and passports.
Seamless travel has been catching on around the world and biometric identification could soon be the future of travel, observers say.
Several Bay Area Health Departments Issue New Mask Mandates, Amid Rising COVID Cases
Health officials in several Bay Area counties have issued new mask mandates as COVID-19 cases continued to rise and in preparation for the upcoming respiratory virus season.
This week, Contra Costa, Sonoma, and San Mateo counties all issued mask orders for healthcare personnel in hospitals and other patient care facilities. All three orders were set to go into effect on Nov. 1 and last through April 30.
The rule would only be applicable to healthcare workers in these settings and would not affect patients or visitors of healthcare facilities, said Anna Roth, director of Contra Costa Health Services.
